1. Statutory backing given to Amaravati through the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2026 means what in practice?
Answer: C. When a decision is written into an Act of Parliament, it carries legal force. That makes it much harder to alter by an ordinary executive order.
2. Under the earlier Three-Capital proposal for Andhra Pradesh, the Administrative Capital role was assigned to which city?
Answer: A. In that scheme Visakhapatnam would house the administration, with Amaravati serving as the legislative seat and Kurnool as the judicial seat.
3. Which area of biodiversity governance is the Nagoya Protocol chiefly concerned with?
Answer: E. The protocol aims at fair and equitable distribution of gains from using genetic resources, which helps stop biopiracy.
4. The Nyaya Setu AI Chatbot has been built chiefly to do what?
Answer: B. The tool is meant to widen access to justice by overcoming language and literacy barriers through AI and voice-first design.
5. What is the thrust of the Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Bill, 2026?
Answer: D. Minor violations would attract fines instead of jail terms, which supports ease of doing business.
6. For whom are the natural gas derivatives introduced by NSE and IGX mainly useful?
Answer: D. Industrial users can fix the price they will pay in advance, shielding themselves from fluctuating natural gas rates.
7. Which index serves as the benchmark for the new natural gas derivative contracts?
Answer: B. GIXI is a price index created by the Indian Gas Exchange to reflect domestic gas prices.
8. RBI's PaSS framework is meant to bring in which facility?
Answer: A. Under PaSS a customer could move to another bank and keep the same account number, much like keeping a mobile number when changing operators.
9. What was the reasoning behind RBI prohibiting Non-Deliverable Forward (NDF) contracts in the rupee?
Answer: E. Non-deliverable forwards permit bets on the rupee without any real exchange of currency, and such speculation can unsettle the rupee in a crisis.
10. Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) is chiefly used for what?
Answer: C. RIA weighs costs, benefits and consequences of a rule both before and after it takes effect, so that it works as intended.
11. Which city was proposed as the judicial capital under the earlier three-capital model for Andhra Pradesh?
Answer: D. The model placed the judicial capital at Kurnool.
12. What does the theme Maati of the Purvanchal Mahotsav Maati-9 festival symbolise?
Answer: B. Maati means soil and stands for the bond with ancestral roots.
13. India's 3,561 IRCCs form what share of all certificates issued worldwide under the Nagoya Protocol?
Answer: C. The notes state India's certificates are over 56% of the global total.
14. Shachi (Yard 1280), launched by the Indian Navy, is the first ship of which project?
Answer: C. It is the lead vessel among eleven NGOPVs.
15. How many voice languages does the Nyaya Setu AI chatbot support?
Answer: C. It supports 36 text languages and 23 voice languages.